It seems that the technology behemoth Google Inc. is going through tough times. If reports are to be believed, after a large number of Google followers, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a quite exit from Google+.
With this, it won’t be unfair to say that Google has lost a renowned user from its screwed list of followers that had been a sound believer in innovation from the very beginning. Though it raised many eyebrows, the Company put a brave face in front of media and claimed that it was triggered by a technical glitch.
In a recent survey, it was found out that children are blocking the friend requests of their parents no Facebook. Parents want to keep an eye on their children activities, their child’s social networking by looking their profile, reading messages posted on their wall, and trawling through their photographs.
It has been revealed in a recent report that the Al-Qaeda has come up with an official “cyber jihad” page on one of the world’s most used networks, Facebook.
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The social networking site Facebook is on its way towards building an even stronger relationship with its users, with the launch of an application for video chatting and calling on the site after finalizing a deal with Skype, the internet calling service.
The official HTC Facebook page has revealed about its quality assurance testing for the Gingerbread firmware that has been earmarked for a roll out on the popular Desire smartphone.
According to news, it was revealed that online search giant Google had launched its new social network to give tough competition to the most popular social site Facebook. Google has already claimed that they will have more than 500mn users.
Google+, which is the newly launched social site by Google against Facebook, allows the people to share photos, messages and comments but also integrates company's maps and images into the service. It also aims to help its users to organize their contacts within the groups.
A recent study has found that Facebook users have closer ties to offline friends than people who don’t have a Facebook account. A survey, conducted by Pew Research Center in Washington DC, questioned 2,225 Americans.
A Facebook user has on an average 229 friends, which turn out to be 48% of their ‘real’ offline friends. Researchers are suggesting that making online relationships will actually improve your social life offline as well.
In an unexpected result, a report by the world's largest social media site, Facebook advertising tool, has revealed slower growth in number of new users during the month of May in the US, UK, Canada, Norway and Russia.
As per the report, in the US, the site suffered a loss of almost 6 million users, while in Canada, the number drops from 52 million to 16.6 million, and the UK, Norway and Russia reported a drop in over 1,00,000 users.
World’s most popular social networking site, Facebook Inc. has launched a new photo tagging feature known as ‘Tag Suggestions’, which will the users to identify their friends automatically in photos without their permission.
The feature was developed in December but has made available by the website recently in most of the countries. The feature has not received a warm welcome as some of the technology experts have raised concern over its privacy protection.
For those of us who may not be particularly tech savvy, it may come as a surprise to learn that the internet as we know it is simply running out of space.
